BROWSE
townland
Tigh na Leice
genitive: Thigh na Leice
non-validated name (What is this?)
(Irish)
Tennalick
(English)

Glossary

English flat stone or rock, flagstone
teach, steach, stigh, tigh
English house

Explanatory note

  • English

    the house of the flagstone

Centrepoint

53.5861, -7.67888latitude, longitude
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Historical references

1517-41
Tynnelyckye (Brene Boy O Ferraill, Kedagh mc Lyesagh)
Kildare Rent. Leathanach: 274, 275
1591
Tenelick
F Leathanach: 5554
1597
Tenelick
F Leathanach: 6108
1601
Tenelick (Gerrot m’Hobert O F., Connell O F., Hubert m’Morghey O F., Tirlagh m’Morgey O F., gents.)
F Leathanach: 6533
1601
Tynelick
F Leathanach: 6557
1601
Tinelick
F
1602
Tynihick
F Leathanach: 6699
1603
Tenelick
CPR Leathanach: 29b
1612
Tenelike
Inq. Lag. Leathanach: 3 Jac.1
1620
castle, town and lands of Tenelick, with one water-mill
CPR Leathanach: 481a
1629
Tenelick [mórchaisleán léirithe anseo]
Cotton Map
1648
...de Tenelica (Richardo Primipilus Edmundus Jacobi O’ Faeralli)
Comm. Rin. Leathanach: 246, Imleabhar: II
1655
Mount Tennelick / castle / mill [tithe 7 caisleán 7 muileann léirithe]
DS
1659
Tenelick
Cen. Leathanach: 452
c.1660
Tonnelicky
BSD Leathanach: 117
c.1660
Tonnelick aforesaid
BSD Leathanach: 118
1666
Tenelick (castle, &c.)...with a water-mill and two weares (Capt. Henry Sankey)
ASE Leathanach: 63
1682
...Tineleck so called be cause they which took her up [Eithne, báite san abhainn] kindled a fire of sticks on a broad stone and called the place Tinyleek which signifies a fire on a slate.
Dowdall
1682
Tineleek
Dowdall
1682
Tineleeke, Englished the House of Broad Stone where was formerly an old castle
Dowdall
1794
Teine Leic
'The River Shannon': Ó Tuathail Leathanach: 214
1813
Tennelick
Edgeworth
1835
Tenelick
BS:AL
1835
Tenelicks
Butler, H.:AL
1835
Tonnelicke
DS:AL
1835
Tennelick
Edgeworth Map (AL)
1835
Tenelicks
Robinson, J.:AL
1835
Teneleeke
Jessop:AL
1835
Teneleik
Gosselen, Rev.:AL
1835
Tonelike
Inq. J I:AL
1835
See Tennaphobble and make this agree with it
Nóta:AL
1835
Tene lice [scriosta] or Tigh na Lice, “house of the flag-stone”
OD:AL
1908
Tenelick; Tigh na Leice, “house of the flagstone”
MacGivney Leathanach: 212
2008
ˈtenəlik
Áit.

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